Tongue for vehicles



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' A. GOODYEAR.

TONGUE FOR VEHIGLES.

No. 300,009. Patented Mar. 20, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIcE.

ALBERT GOODYEAR, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TONGUE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 360,009, dated March 29, 1887.

Application filed August 2, 1886. Serial No. 209.718. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT GOODYEAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Tongues for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a tongue which will be cheap, light, and strong, and which may be reduced to a small compass for transportation; and it consists in constructing a tongue of iron tubing in sections,which sections are joined so as to form telescope joints with one another, whereby the pole or tongue may be shortened to a convenientlength for transportation.

In Figure 1 of the drawings I have shown a plan view of the tongue, with the whiffletrees, neck-yoke, and braces attached. Fig. 2 shows a side view of the tongue, with portions broken away for the purpose of more clearly displaying the arrangement of thejoints.

As I prefer to construct it, the pole is made up of three sections, a b c, of iron tubing, the

several sections decreasing in diameter in the order named, so that each succeeding one, from the rear of the tongue toward the front end, will be small enough to telescope within the preceding one. The joints between the several sections are shown at d and e, the joint 6 being of substantially the same construction as the joint d, which is most clearly shown in Fig. 2. In forming this joint the forward section, which telescopes within the rearward one, is given the conical form shown near its end, and a wedge-shaped sleeve, f, is interposed between the conical end of this section b and the interior of the section a, so that when the tongue is drawn out to its full length the rear end of the section b will form a wedgingjoint with the collarf, and thus prevent any play between the sections a and b. The wedgingcollarf may be secured to the end of the sec tion a by rivets or screws, and for still further security may be extended around the end of the section a and backward on the outside thereof, as shown in the figure at 9; but this extension of the collar on the outside of the section a may be dispensed with. The key h is inserted through the overlapping portions of the two sections, so that the sections cannot telescope into one another until this key is withdrawn.

It will be unnecessary for me to describe in detail the joint e, as the description already given'for thejoint (I will suffice for both.

The attachment of the rear end of the pole to the vehicle may be made by a piece, i, screwed into the rear of the section a, and provided with a proper bolt-hole for attachment to the proper mechanism on the vehicle.

jj are two side braces connected with the vehicle at their rear ends, and secured at their forward ends to the clip upon the tongue.

The whiflletrees are preferably made, also, of iron tubing, and may be secured to the tongue in the following manner: Upon the section a is placed the collar Z, which is provided with an upwardly-extending bolt, m, at its top. nut an annular collar, a, into the opposite sides of which are screwed the tubular arms 0 0. At the extremities of these arms are the clips pp, which serve to secure the tubular pieces q q, as shown.

1' is a tubular piece of iron, serving as the neck-yoke. It is provided at its center with a clip, 8, provided with a ring, which may be attached to the end of the tongue by the spiral piece t, which projects from the end of the tongue, as shown.

I have described this as a tongue for vehicles. It is apparent that it may be used with vehicles of almost any kind; but the particular use to which I intend to apply it is as a tongue for mowing and harvesting machines, since those machines especially require a tongue which can be easily transported, and at the same time which will be light and cheap in construction.

It is obvious that when this tongue is closed by telescoping the sections into each other it can be packed with the main portions of the harvesting machine or mowers.

I have described the tongue considerably in detail; but I do not wish the details which I Upon this bolt is secured beneath a.

have described to be considered as essentizil to ing-collar, f, interposed between the overlapmy invention, since I am aware that they are ping ends of the two sections, substantially as likely to be changed to a considerable extent described.

by mechanics in carrying out my invention. ALBERT GOODYEAR. 5 I claim Witnesses:

In a tubular tongue, the sections a and b, LIVINGSTON GIFFORD,

telescoping one into the other, and a Wedg- CHAS. T. \VARD. 

